WeWow On The Weekend (6/4/23)

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02:06: Ah, ah, ah, ah!

02:07: We wow on the weekend.

02:09: We wow on the weekend.

02:11: We wow on the weekend.

02:14: Cause this is what we do on the weekend.

02:16: Talking, laughing, me and Reggie.

02:23: And then we go, wait no I said laughing twice

02:27: Whatever

02:28: We wow on the weekend

02:33: We wow on the weekend

02:34: Cause this is what we do on the weekend

02:39: Hello and welcome to We wow on the weekend

02:43: I'm your host Dennis

02:45: And that's Reggie, my sidekick

02:47: I mean co-host

02:48: I mean, um, what'd you get up to last night, Reggie?

02:52: Rrrr. Rrr. Rrr. Rrr.

02:53: Really? And then what?

02:55: Rrr. Rrr. Rrr.

02:56: Ahaha! Where'd a walrus learn how to DJ?

02:59: Rrr. Rrr. Rrr. Rrr. 50 frogs with glow sticks?

03:05: Rrr. Wow! What a wild night!

03:06: Rrr. Rrr. Rrr.

03:08: Oh, me? I stayed in, built a fort out of the couch cushions,

03:12: rode a gossip blog called Denysing, and made confetti.

03:16: Rrr. Rrr. Yeah! I made confetti!

03:18: Two whole bags.

03:19: How?

03:20: With a confetti maker, Reggie.

03:23: What's a confetti maker?

03:25: Reggie, are we even friends?

03:27: Mmm.

03:29: Oh, right, right, right, right, right.

03:30: We should move on and answer some questions from my adoring fans.

03:35: It's time for the Q&A segment.

03:38: Ha, ha, ha, ha.

03:39: The Q&A segment.

03:43: Ta.

03:44: All right, let's just get the old answering machine pulled up here.

03:47: Okay, here we go.

03:50: Hi, you've reached Dennis from We Wow on the Weekend.

03:54: That's me.

03:55: Do you have a question?

03:56: Well, I do too.

03:57: Lots of them.

03:58: And who's gonna answer all my questions?

04:01: You?

04:02: Probably not.

04:03: But I guess I can answer yours.

04:05: Leave me a message.

04:07: Hi, Dennis.

04:09: It's Lucy.

04:10: I'm nine from Zenz, California.

04:12: I have a riddle for you.

04:13: One night, a canister, and a queen walked into a castle.

04:16: into the castle. No one was in there. It was completely empty.

04:20: Who else was in the castle with the king and the queen?

04:23: I hope you can answer it.

04:25: Oh, well riddle! I love riddles!

04:28: Okay, one night a king and a queen walked into an empty castle, but there was someone else

04:35: in there, but also no one was in there.

04:40: Oh, oh, I know. It's a, it's, it's, uh, uh, no wait, uh, no, never mind.

04:45: This is hard.

04:47: Okay Dennis, you can do this.

04:49: Just be logical.

04:50: Think back.

04:51: What did Lucy say exactly?

04:54: Okay, I pushed the button.

04:56: There was a beep.

04:57: And then, hi Dennis, it's Lucy from Venice, California.

05:00: I have a ready for you.

05:02: And then she said, um...

05:05: Reggie, be quiet.

05:07: I'm trying to remember what Lucy said after hi Dennis.

05:11: Well Lucy said my name and then I got distracted

05:13: Stracted because my name is so melodious

05:17: All right one night a king and a queen walked into an empty castle with no one else in there who else was in there

05:24: Um, I don't know a mouse or something and the answer is the night

05:30: Huh don't you get it one night a king and a queen walking through a castle?

05:36: Bye.

05:38: Oh, one night.

05:40: Like a knight in shining armor.

05:42: Wow, that was a good one.

05:44: And I almost had it.

05:46: Next question, or riddle?

05:49: Hey Dennis, my name is Claire.

05:51: I live in Georgia and I am 11 years old.

05:54: My question is, how did you and Reggie meet?

05:58: Thanks, Spike.

05:58: How did me and Reggie meet?

06:01: Wow, thanks for your question, Claire.

06:03: Reggie, do you remember how we met?

06:07: Ragey, no! I met you way before that.

06:09: Ragey, yeah, huh? Remember, it was Season 3, Episode 3, and Elevator 2, the stars.

06:16: Ragey, I saw you from my driveway. You were gonna fly Mindy and Guy Ross to the Elevator's concert.

06:23: Ragey, yeah, now you remember, I was very concerned for your safety, and I told you I was a card-carrying member of an activist group for imaginary animal rights.

06:35: Yeah, that was a good episode. Next question!

06:38: Hi, Dennis. My name is June and I have a question for you.

06:43: What is the funniest joke you've learned in your whole entire life?

06:48: And why? Say hi to Reggie for me. Bye!

06:51: Wow. June! The funniest joke of my whole entire life?

06:56: Oh yeah, Reggie. June says hi.

06:59: Okay. Funniest joke. Funniest joke.

07:04: Oh, I know, this is a good one.

07:06: Broom.

07:07: Okay, so an elephant, a giraffe, and a lizard get on an airplane, and they, um, well, wait no, it's not an airplane.

07:15: It was a helicopter.

07:16: Broom.

07:17: Or actually, no, they were on an airplane because they were at the airport.

07:22: And then the lizard said, wait, no, was it a chameleon or a lizard?

07:26: Broom.

07:27: Are chameleons lizards?

07:28: Broom.

07:29: Whatever.

07:30: It was definitely a chameleon because the punchline is that it changes color.

07:33: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, pretend I didn't say that.

07:35: Okay, so the giraffe, the elephant, and the chameleon

07:39: are going through security at the airport,

07:41: and the security guard tells the elephant to take off her hat.

07:45: I forgot to say that the elephant is wearing a hat.

07:48: Okay, and then, hang on, Reggie,

07:52: I'm trying to remember the next part.

07:55: And then, oh, I remember, and then the chameleon says,

07:59: I've been here the whole time!

08:02: Ha ha ha ha ha!

08:04: No!

08:06: Oh, that's a good one.

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08:16: Wow, wow.

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08:31: Inside Tinkercast Studios!

08:34: This is the part where we revisit an episode of one of my favorite Tinkercast shows.

08:41: And this weekend, we're revisiting episodes from the very first season of Wow in the World.

08:47: Today, we're doing a story from episode 7 called The Velocity of Poop.

08:54: R.J. Ew! Is this a gross one?

08:57: Well, did Guy Ross think it was gross?

08:59: Oh, he didn't.

09:01: Okay, I'll give it a shot.

09:03: Here we go.

09:04: And plank.

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09:53: Hey, there's a race about to happen. Hey, Mindy, yeah, I'm the official timekeeper.

10:08: Wait, is that an elephant and a tiger at the starting line? What is this? Yeah,

10:15: Yeah, can you hold my jacket for a second?

10:17: I gotta get the stopwatch ready.

10:20: Follow your mark.

10:21: Get set, set, go!

10:24: My new ornate takes the lead, follows us

10:25: with the behind-by conservation of faking matter.

10:28: And here comes your son-gun rumble.

10:29: Passing and I swirling the dooses out wild,

10:31: following close behind, and I'll need your number to bring the ring-bubble maker back.

10:36: OK, Roz, they're not moving, and I'm

10:39: pretty sure that elephant just went who.

10:42: Let's see here.

10:43: Five seconds.

10:45: Yes, so this race didn't appear to actually begin or move anywhere.

10:52: Oh, no, why that tiger just pooped.

10:54: Oh, man, what is happening?

10:56: I was stanked out here.

10:59: Oh, no, man.

10:59: Either the race went exactly to plan.

11:01: What are you talking about?

11:03: The elephant just stood there and pooped.

11:05: Yeah, I know.

11:06: Wasn't that great?

11:07: What the...

11:08: I thought, have you got bonker balls?

11:10: You're standing here on a track

11:12: with an elephant and a tiger holding a stopwatch,

11:15: you got a sweat band on your head,

11:18: and neither one of these animals seem interested

11:20: in running it all over, they just pooped again.

11:23: Oh, oh, oh.

11:24: Well, who said this was a running race, maybe?

11:26: Oh, oh, oh, oh.

11:27: What is happening?

11:29: Well, I'm trying to recreate an experiment

11:32: carried out by two researchers at the Georgia Institute

11:35: of Technology, David Hu and Patricia Ye.

11:39: Right, so let me just make sure I got this straight.

11:41: You are standing on this running track, holding a stopwatch,

11:45: watching an elephant and a tiger poop in the name of science?

11:49: Well, probably not exactly like this, Mindy,

11:53: but yeah, these two scientists basically timed how fast certain animals poop.

12:00: Okay, so you're telling me that two scientists

12:03: from one of the finest universities in the world timed how fast animals poop?

12:10: Yeah, that's exactly what I'm telling you, Mindy.

12:13: Oh, boy, there they go again.

12:15: Gaira, why would they do that?

12:17: I wouldn't even do something that crazy.

12:20: Well, Mindy, it has to do with something called scattermancy or coppermancy.

12:25: Scatic, copper, what?

12:27: Well, these were methods used by ancient doctors

12:31: a long, long, long time ago in places like China, ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome.

12:37: Okay, and this has what to do with animal poop?

12:41: Well, actually a lot, Mindy, in ancient times,

12:45: if you were sick, doctors would examine your poop.

12:49: They would look at the size and the shape and the color

12:52: and try and figure out if they could identify clues

12:55: that would help them understand why you were sick.

12:58: Ah, hold the phone, Guy Roz.

12:59: I've got some science business to take care of.

13:02: I'll be right back.

13:07: Sorry, I'm back. My science allavatory was occupied. So you're saying, Gaira, that we

13:14: can find out all of that stuff just by examining our poop, which I would never ever actually do, by the way.

13:23: Well, yeah, and in fact, Mindy, even modern-day doctors sometimes do the same thing because

13:28: Our poop is simply what our body produces from our food

13:32: after it takes in the vitamins and nutrients from the food.

13:36: Okay, so let me just make sure I've got this straight.

13:38: These two researchers, David Hoo and Patricia Geng,

13:42: did this experiment just to find out if these animals were healthy?

13:47: Well, in this case, not exactly.

13:49: They were actually more interested in finding out how fast different mammals poop.

13:55: Oh, now this is getting interesting.

13:57: And Mindy, what they wanted to find out is why poop comes out in different shapes and

14:02: sizes in different mammals, including us humans.

14:06: Wow, yeah, I'm still having trouble wrapping my brain around this one.

14:09: So what did they do?

14:11: What they did was they videotaped 34 different mammals at the Atlanta Zoo.

14:17: So elephants, lions, gorillas, bears, and then they watched videos of the animals pooping.

14:23: Wow!

14:24: Well, I guess science does happen in all kinds of ways, so what do they find out?

14:30: Well the first thing they found out was about poop size and the size of the animal, so the bigger the animal.

14:37: The bigger the poop?

14:39: Yes, which sounds kind of obvious, right?

14:42: I'd say that's pretty obvious.

14:43: But here's another interesting thing these scientists observed.

14:47: There's more?

14:48: Yeah, they found out that bigger animals pooped faster than smaller animals.

14:53: Okay.

14:54: So an elephant, for example, takes about five seconds to poop,

14:58: but a dog can take up to 20 seconds to poop.

15:02: Ow, please tell me they were wearing those plugs during this experiment.

15:06: Well, as far as I understand, there were some stinky situations, but...

15:12: Ow, you said that!

15:15: But what they found is that most mammals take

15:18: between five and 20 seconds to go poop.

15:21: Wow, okay, so this is gross and fascinating,

15:25: but I have to ask, Ira, why is this even important?

15:29: I'll get there, Mindy, but before I do that,

15:31: can you guess why bigger animals poop out faster than smaller ones?

15:37: Why does an elephant poop faster than a monkey?

15:39: Because they're in a bigger hurry,

15:42: or maybe their poop's just so heavy, it just falls out really fast.

15:46: Well, actually, the scientists discovered

15:49: that the bigger the animal, the more likely their poop

15:53: is covered in a thicker layer of a slippery coating.

15:57: And the smaller the animal, the thinner the layer of that slippery coating.

16:00: So how is this information going to help make the world a better place, GuyRos?

16:06: Uh-huh.

16:06: Well, as you know, Mindy, science is about curiosity

16:10: and discovery, and it doesn't always have to have a point.

16:13: But in this case, David, whose research might actually

16:17: help people and other animals who have trouble going to the bathroom.

16:21: That's interesting.

16:22: Yeah, this research might lead to new medicines that could make life a little more comfortable

16:27: for lots of people who have pain when they go to the bathroom.

16:31: And that could be an incredibly important invention.

16:34: Well, this is all starting to sound like a poop or dooper idea.

16:38: And it gets better, Mindy.

16:40: In 2015, this scientist, David Hough, won a famous award known as the Ig Nobel Prize for

16:46: Another study he wrote about.

16:48: He won the Nobel Prize, the most famous prize in all of science.

16:54: The same prize that Albert Einstein won.

16:57: Well, actually it was the Ig Nobel Prize.

17:01: It's an award given to a scientist whose research makes people laugh.

17:06: That science had to be serious.

17:08: There was laughing a lot of science.

17:10: Okay, wait a minute.

17:11: So what was the research?

17:12: Well, he won that award for studying how fast mammals go...

17:16: P.

17:17: Of course he did.

17:18: So what did he discover?

17:20: Well, he discovered that on average, we mammals take about 20 seconds to empty out our

17:25: bladders, which is where we store our P inside our bodies.

17:29: Oh, check it out.

17:30: I think that elephant tiger that you were observing on the racetrack might be a...

17:34: Animals to your starting positions.

17:38: Who will prove to be number one at number one?

17:41: One evening.

17:43: On your mark.

17:44: Get set.

17:45: Go!

17:47: If you know what I mean.

17:50: They might be doing that P experiment on their own.

17:54: I guess it's time to clean it up.

17:56: What would you look at the time?

17:58: Get around, not it!

18:00: R-Reji?

18:02: Care to explain?

18:04: No said it wasn't a gross one!

18:06: R-Rajai! There was pooping and tooting and peeing!

18:10: R-Rajai! Yes, I know poop is important for science, but that's not the point!

18:14: R-Rajai! The point is, now I have to go wash my ears out!

18:18: R-Rajai! Well, thanks everyone for listening to this episode of We Wow on the Weekend!

18:26: Be sure to give our phone lines a call to ask me Dennis a question

18:32: The number is one eight eight eight seven wow wow that's one eight eight eight seven wow wow

18:39: I just might answer your question on we wow on the weekend

18:45: Ready now I told you already I have to go wash my ears out

18:49: Because I think there's animal toots stuck in there and I need to get it out

18:55: No, Roger, I'm not going to use shampoo.

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